Unable to load module fglrx: cannot allocate memory

I can confirm that, as I am affected by the exact same issue. I'm also using a board with an R300 chipset.

Several other users have reported similar experiences in the "fglrx works!!"-thread at ubuntuforums.com (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5968595#post5968595).

I can also confirm. Exactly the same bug. ATI Mobility Radeon 9600.

sadly I must admit that my notebook also affected by this bug. Today I decided to give intrepid beta a try... after upgrade and reboot I ended up with console. In kernel.log I can see messages like "error inserting fglrx ...[path_here]... Cannot allocate memory" when manually run modprobe fglrx

Me too! On a Mobility Radeon 9700.

After reading about an X Server 1.5 compatible fglrx beta being available in Intrepid, I finally ugraded my system (I always do a few weeks before the official launch). Stupid me. How could I *not* assume that ATI would mess up support for my Mobility Radeon?

So it is sounding like this regression is only happening on the
mobility 9XXx cards. IA this a corect assertion, or has anyone seen
this on other cards?

On 10/19/2008, Stormking <email address hidden> wrote:
> Me too! On a Mobility Radeon 9700.
>
> After reading about an X Server 1.5 compatible fglrx beta being
> available in Intrepid, I finally ugraded my system (I always do a few
> weeks before the official launch). Stupid me. How could I *not* assume
> that ATI would mess up support for my Mobility Radeon?
>
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Having this problem with "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]".

Mario:
My card is not a mobility, it's a desktop Radeon 9500pro, AGP.

Stefano,
Okay, still in the 9xxx cards however. Appearing to at least be
problems with these asics.

On 10/19/2008, Stefano Maioli <email address hidden> wrote:
> Mario:
> My card is not a mobility, it's a desktop Radeon 9500pro, AGP.
>
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BTW: problem is still there with version 2:8.543-0ubuntu2

Yesterday, 20081020, just to give a try I update 7.04 to intrepid beta and fglrx showed the same problem reported in these follow-ups, too. I tried to use the OS driver (ati), and it does not work either.

Pietro

And? What happens next? Will someone from Ubuntu call ATI or will we have to wait till november?

You can use ATI open-source driver, but You should completely remove fglrx
driver.
They have some overlapping files and fglrx driver replaces ati driver files.
So You should just do the followinf things:
1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

That's all. In my case it helped (ATI mobility radeon 9600)
Good luck.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:50 PM, p_alfa <email address hidden> wrote:

> Yesterday, 20081020, just to give a try I update 7.04 to intrepid beta
> and fglrx showed the same problem reported in these follow-ups, too. I
> tried to use the OS driver (ati), and it does not work either.
>
> Pietro
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Confirmed here - ATI Radeon 9500 PRO AGP

Confirmed - ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 M10. Errors out on fresh install of Intrepid.

Relevant dmesg:
[ 1096.383186] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 1096.383195] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
[ 1096.383202] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed

Still the same with fglrx 8.11 (8.552).

dmesg gives:
[ 1137.291557] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1169 MBytes.
[ 1137.293424] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 1137.293487] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
[ 1137.293558] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed

Oh Boy, I hope it wont last for 21 months like the XVideo-on-tv-out-bug some time ago. Does anyone important even read these bug reports?

>
> Does anyone important even read these bug reports?
>
> Yes, it is on all the necessary peoples' radars. However the ball is in
ATI's park now. Also please don't comment in duplicate bugs, comment in the
one it is a duplicate of, as not as many people will see it!

> es, it is on all the necessary peoples' radars. However the ball is in
> ATI's park now.
Yeah, I was afraid of that. Last time there was a showstopper bug in the driver, it took them two years to fix it.

> Also please don't comment in duplicate bugs, comment in the
> one it is a duplicate of, as not as many people will see it!
Okay.